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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 14:15:19 -0600
NOVEMBER 2001 There's a resurgence of interest in fantasy literature. Why? There are as many reasons as books. We especially noticed the new edition of "Enchantress from the Stars" by Sylvia Engdahl (Walker, 2001). The CCBC just received a copy of "The Mouse and His Child" by Russell Hoban with new illustrations by David Small (Arthur A. Levine / Scholastic Press). Will Gregory Maguire's Hamlet Chronicles beginning with
"Seven Spiders Spinning" (Clarion, 1994; HarperTrophy 1995) fit into our discussion? It will be up to you, after we look at "Enchantress from the Stars," and then at other works of fantasy and science fiction throughout the month.
DECEMBER 2001 The annual "Favorites of the Year" discussion is a popular one. We look forward to lively sharing of favorite books for all ages. Everyone particuarly enjoys finding out "why" when someone makes a gift book suggestion, or proposes a perfect
"read-aloud" or a picture book, or a novel, or a biography, or a collection of poems, or or or... We try to emphasize books published during 2001.
JANUARY 2002 During January, we'll announce the fifth winner of the CCBC's Charlotte Zolotow Award. We'll also announce the 2002 Zolotow Honor Book(s) and Highly Commended Books
- all of them representing outstanding writing in picture books for young children through age seven years. Watch for this information sometime during first part of January.
January 1 - 20: We'll discuss the 2001 National Book Award Nominees in the category of Young People's Literature. The nominees announced on October 10 are: 1) Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson (Front Street); 2) A Step from Heaven by An Na, (Front Street); 3) The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick); 4) True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff (Atheneum / Simon & Schuster); and 5) We Were There Too! Young People in U.S. History by Phillip Hoose (A Melanie Kroupa Book / Farrar Straus Giroux). All were published in 2001. The winner will be announced on November 14. We'll discuss all five books during these first weeks of January.
Janurary 21 - 31:
Beginning January 21st, CCBC-Net welcomes your informal, initial responses to the ALA Award News to be announced on the 21st in New Orleans during the American Library Association's Midwinter Conference. The outcomes to be announced that morning will include the 2002 Newbery, Caldecott, Belpr?, Coretta Scott King, Sibert, Batchelder, and Printz Awards.
Later during the same week - after you've had a chance to look for or look at some of these books - we'll begin discussing the winner and honor books for the 2002 Caldecott Award.
- Ginny
Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse at education.wisc.edu Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ A Library of the School of Education, University of Wisconsin Madison (now open seven days a week each semester: Mon-Thurs 9am-7pm; Fri 9am-4pm; Sat & Sun 12:30-4pm)
Received on Thu 01 Nov 2001 02:15:19 PM CST
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 14:15:19 -0600
NOVEMBER 2001 There's a resurgence of interest in fantasy literature. Why? There are as many reasons as books. We especially noticed the new edition of "Enchantress from the Stars" by Sylvia Engdahl (Walker, 2001). The CCBC just received a copy of "The Mouse and His Child" by Russell Hoban with new illustrations by David Small (Arthur A. Levine / Scholastic Press). Will Gregory Maguire's Hamlet Chronicles beginning with
"Seven Spiders Spinning" (Clarion, 1994; HarperTrophy 1995) fit into our discussion? It will be up to you, after we look at "Enchantress from the Stars," and then at other works of fantasy and science fiction throughout the month.
DECEMBER 2001 The annual "Favorites of the Year" discussion is a popular one. We look forward to lively sharing of favorite books for all ages. Everyone particuarly enjoys finding out "why" when someone makes a gift book suggestion, or proposes a perfect
"read-aloud" or a picture book, or a novel, or a biography, or a collection of poems, or or or... We try to emphasize books published during 2001.
JANUARY 2002 During January, we'll announce the fifth winner of the CCBC's Charlotte Zolotow Award. We'll also announce the 2002 Zolotow Honor Book(s) and Highly Commended Books
- all of them representing outstanding writing in picture books for young children through age seven years. Watch for this information sometime during first part of January.
January 1 - 20: We'll discuss the 2001 National Book Award Nominees in the category of Young People's Literature. The nominees announced on October 10 are: 1) Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson (Front Street); 2) A Step from Heaven by An Na, (Front Street); 3) The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick); 4) True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff (Atheneum / Simon & Schuster); and 5) We Were There Too! Young People in U.S. History by Phillip Hoose (A Melanie Kroupa Book / Farrar Straus Giroux). All were published in 2001. The winner will be announced on November 14. We'll discuss all five books during these first weeks of January.
Janurary 21 - 31:
Beginning January 21st, CCBC-Net welcomes your informal, initial responses to the ALA Award News to be announced on the 21st in New Orleans during the American Library Association's Midwinter Conference. The outcomes to be announced that morning will include the 2002 Newbery, Caldecott, Belpr?, Coretta Scott King, Sibert, Batchelder, and Printz Awards.
Later during the same week - after you've had a chance to look for or look at some of these books - we'll begin discussing the winner and honor books for the 2002 Caldecott Award.
- Ginny
Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse at education.wisc.edu Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ A Library of the School of Education, University of Wisconsin Madison (now open seven days a week each semester: Mon-Thurs 9am-7pm; Fri 9am-4pm; Sat & Sun 12:30-4pm)
Received on Thu 01 Nov 2001 02:15:19 PM CST
